Job Details

Software Engineer - ASE Data Services

Seattle, Washington, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: May 13, 2025

Role Number: 200603217

The Apple Media Products (AMP) Data Services Team is looking for extraordinary engineers to design and build best of breed systems for dealing with our complex and ever-growing data and infrastructure needs. We are a key part of the Apple ecosystem, supporting millions of users and billions of transactions. We're looking for someone ready to work at huge scale and have a hand in bringing amazing new products and services to market.

Description

The Apple Media Products Engineering team supports tens of millions of pieces of content in more than 150 markets enjoyed by hundreds of millions of users, which powers various features within the Apple client applications - App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, iTunes, iBooks, Podcast, etc. We've got unique and growing needs for data storage and consumption. You will help building the next generation infrastructural and platform services, which provide and support abilities like structured and unstructured storage, caching, queueing and much more. You'll collaborate cross-functionally with various AMP teams, from store and commerce through to search and recommendations, creating services and infrastructure platforms and pipelines that can rapidly scale and serve personalized and non-personalized data with very low latency. You should be someone who is not afraid to question assumptions, is a good team player under tight deadlines and tackles problems with elegant technical solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years of industry experience

• Professional software development experience in Java and/or C++ with strong understanding of Object oriented concepts and design

• Experience with at least one of scalable data stores - Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB.

• Experience designing and implementing RESTful API and services.

• Strong production, debugging, and performance tuning skills.

• Strong understanding of data architecture and related problems.

• Experience working on complex problems and distributed systems where scalability and performance are extremely important (every millisecond counts)

• Should be independent and able to effectively work with cross functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with compute/container platforms such as K8s is highly preferred

• Experience in distributed data stores replication and CRDT is a plus

• Experience in scalable message queue systems like Kafka, RocketMQ is a plus.

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $135,400 and $250,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

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